You may be wondering why our last two photos were titled ‘Crafty’ and ‘Very Crafty’. Well, as we mentioned in a previous post, NZ is very keen on craft beer, or real ale as we refer to it in Blighty.

After trying to kick the ass of jetlag a third time, we finally made it back to our favourite bar, Vulture’s Lane, in Vulcan Lane (which is obviously where Spock and Kirk meet for a beer) on Thursday afternoon.

We decided on a taster selection of six different beers, out of the 30 pump and bottled beers available. For fellow ale lovers, we’ve named them below (Brewery, ale name, ale type) – don’t you just love some of the brewery names!

• Yeastie Boys ‘Golden Perch’ (Summer ale)
• Yeastie Boys/Brews Brothers ‘Fork and Brewer Collaboration’ (Spring ale)
• Ben Middlemiss Brewing ‘White Lady’ (Witbier)
• Behemoth Brewing Company ‘Iron Harvest’ (Saison)
• Liberty ‘Oh Brother’ (Pale Ale)
• Governor ‘Governor’ (Lager)

They were all really good, but our favourites were ‘White Lady’ and ‘Fork and Brewer Collaboration’.

As we were enjoying the Winter Olympics snowboard events on the TV, we also decided to try the Epic Pale Ale. Also very good!

We did intend on going back again later that evening for some more banter, but as you might have guessed, we fell asleep. Ah well, it was a good day :0)